Central sued for $14 mil

So other mountains that do have park passes (Whister I know of.... Hood? Where else?)...

Do you have to take a little class there too? I always thought you just had to pay a little extra for another ticket, if there was actually something you had to sit through that'd be a little more incentive to take it a little more seriuosly.
 
That would be such a pain in the ass for vacationers who want to use the park. Oh wait, who in their right mind would take a ski vacation to Snoqualmie?
 
for Blackcomb you only have to pay $20 and sign an actual wavier that states that you cant sue them no situation regardless including neglect and or error on the part of whistler blackcomb and its staff. and you must sign each page showing that you have read it. aqnd if your an american you arnt getting shit out of a canadian court
 
Whistler is actually the only place I know of, and their liability is different because it's canada. At whistler you don't have to take a class or watch a video or anything, but you do have to sign and initial a three page form in like 10 different places (and your parents if you're a young'un) and they won't let you in the high level if you're not wearing a helmet.

The guy from Stevens was talking about making people take a little class.

What I would do if it were up to me (as it should be), is produce a video about terrain park ettiquete and safety. Make the bastards first pay $10 to watch the video in the first place, make em sit through it, and make em sign some shit. I guarentee a lot of people wouldn't bother

 
there are other mountains that do it too, albeit it is very few (at least for now). I believe Mountain Creek, NJ does it. Just pay $5, sign the forms, and you're golden. Stratton does it too. Correct me if Im wrong, but I believe they have a short video that is mandatory, as well.

It would seem practical to be skeptical that park passes wouldn't work, because if somebody supposedly "waived" their rights buy purchasing a lift ticket, how would it be any different if they "waived" their rights for a park pass? Perhaps the biggest difference, at least that I can see, is that it requires a signiature, which could be far more binding and definite. That's just an assumption, though.
 
winter park also has one I think. a 10 minute video would not be bad. I think then it would only need to be $5 or $10 to keep people out.
 
10 minute video my ass... It should be at least a half hour if not a whole hour. I mean it sucks that the legit people would have to sit through it as well, but I think in the end it would be worth it.
 
yep they do, exxcept they make you pay like $30 and you have togo to a safety class, it's not really worth it unless you mostly ski winter park.
 
im just saying from my standpoint it wasn't worth it to pay to hit two jumps and a couple rails when i only went there twice this year, it was a very small part of their park that required the pass. now if stevens just made the whole brooks area a park, that would be ideal, and have them check park passes when getting on the lift.
 
the sig is very important in terms of legal rights and the park pass agreement almost always says something about neglect on the part of the mountain and it's staff, I don't know if the lift tickets have the same thing.
 
Taken directly from the back of my pass:

"I accept all of the risks of skiing, snowboarding and other activities. I agree to Release, Indemnify and Hold Harmless the resort for any and all risks, injury, death or property damage that may result"

Any and all it says.

(god my ski coat stinks)
 
the only problem i see with that is that then the mountain has to facility the whole video thing. i guess they could just say every morning at 9 they have a video time, but they have to pay somebody to cover that every single day, of course its less that $14million. and the park pass money would help offset that.

but i think what it really comes down to, is how much do the resorts think their parks are worth. do they really make that much money off of their parks? i would doubt it, except for some of the bigger places like whistler. think of snoqualmie, yes they are quite a few people who come for the park.... us. but we buy seasons passes and don't buy their food or use the lodges pretty much at all. so they're not making money off of us from buying lift tickets (they probably don't make too much off of season passes, especially from people like us who go up a few times a week.) and then they're not making money off of us from their outrageous food prices.

it just seems to me from a financial standpoint, that it would just be easier for the resorts to plow the parks into oblivion... i certainly hope im wrong.
 
gotta look at it from a competetive standpoint

what would happen if snoqualmie axed all their parks and stevens didn't?

 
Yep, the mountains make virtually NO money off pass holders. All the money comes from daily tickets, lodge food, and rentals.
 
next year stevens will have a park pass. we are taking over all of brooks there will be at least three park employees at the top of the park at a yurt with red bull and stickers and then you can ride the park for the first day for free and if you like it all year for five bucks. thats a cup of coffe these days. keep it on the down low because its not for sure yet but i have in the works a sponsership from Helly Hansen for new boxes rails wallride music the works. next year will be the year for stevens i already have a 20 tall 10x10 flat box being built. uhhhhhhhhhh look for it ill post some pics on our site soon.
 
stevens used to have their shit together and they had there shit togeather for a good chunk of the year. (minus being far away and expensive)
 
Wow what happened to Steven's whole "no park sponsorship" thing that I heard about all the time in previous years?

Anyway, that's pretty exciting! Hopefully all goes well with Brian's plans!
 
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